Joseph Pimentel Email and Phone Number

· Responsible for creating and curating daily news stories from in-house multimedia journalist staff, Associated Press, and other news partners for Spectrum News' mobile app home page, websites and social media channels· Copy edited Spectrum News' journalists' written and video packages to fit the company's news styleSupported breaking news coverage and other assignments for placement on Spectrum News' various news channels· Responsible for creating content and seeking out enterprise and investigative stories relating to Orange County and Los Angeles business, real estate, and coronavirus pandemic-related issues for Spectrum News' website and mobile app· Wrote, edited, proofed, and fact-checked stories before handing them out to managers as part of the content approval process· Member of Charter's diversity and inclusion task force, where I was part of a team that promoted inclusive storytelling, created professional development programs and hosted diverse range of speakers to speak at a monthly podium series

• Provided accurate, deeply reported stories, information and analysis to help inform, connect and advance the business of professionals in the commercial real estate industry in Los Angeles, Orange County and across the Southern California region • Reported analysis, breaking news, enterprise, human interest, investigative, trend pieces, scoops and special projects relating to the commercial real estate industry for the Bisnow.com website. Stories include the Opportunity Zones program, rent control, the Prop. 13 split roll, affordable housing, gentrification, economic trends, diversity and the coronavirus-catalyzed recession•Photographed subjects and produced social media content and covered local and Bisnow-hostedindustry business events • Responsible for producing national and local stories for the Bisnow.com website and digitalnewsletters for subscribers• Moderated panels and took part in discussions relating to trends in commercial real estate

• Served as a local watchdog reporter covering Anaheim, the largest city in Orange County, and Disneyland, the largest employer in Orange County. • Lead reporter responsible for covering news and writing features about local government, Disneyland, Southern California theme parks and tourism for the dailies across Digital First’s newspaper and digital platforms.• Managed and organized teams for coverage of major Disneyland and Anaheim Convention Center events. • Social media manager responsible for managing the @OCDisney Twitter account. Have increased followers by more than 95%, from 12,000 to 23,400.• Other responsibilities include writing business stories about the Walt Disney Co., general assignment and breaking news, crime, and real estate development.

• While concurrently working as a reporter at the Asian Journal, spent five years as a multimedia freelance television news reporter for “Balitang America,” a daily 30-minute news program that reports on the Filipino American community. • Localized and ethnicized U.S. national issues relating to Filipino Americans, such as immigration reform, the lack of Asian-Americans and Filipino-American representation in politics and other industries, and healthcare.• Covered extensively and provided live coverage on the career of Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino boxing champion and political figure in the Philippines. • Researched, gathered facts, shot video, created and edited video packages, performed on-camera standup, and wrote broadcast scripts of enterprising stories about the Filipino-American and Asian-American community from human interest stories, politics to crime stories

• Served as a multi-dimensional reporter - writing, photographing, and shooting video of news and events for the largest Filipino American newspaper in the nation with more than a 100,000 bi-weekly circulation and a website.• Ethnicized U.S. national and local news relevant to the Filipino American, Asian American and ethnic communities. • Wrote breaking news, features, and investigative stories including unraveling the Philippine government’s faulty GSIS pension system; the impact the closure of California’s care homes would have on the Filipino American senior community; and wrote a series of stories about the arrest of Eminiano "Jun" Reodica, an alleged swindler considered the Bernie Madoff in the Filipino-American and Fil-Australian communities. • Created a database of contacts, while developing and maintaining relationships with sources and other prominent figures in the community.

• Part of a team that educated and distributed tens of millions of dollars of foreign levies owed to writers or their heirs in a fast paced, and deadline environment. • Responsible for extensive researching, locating and contacting writers or their heirs for distribution of foreign levies owed. • Created and maintained a database to properly identify titles and writers for payment allocations as well as processed payments for distribution to writers.

• Wrote stories and transaction briefs for the Journal's California Real Estate Journal, a weekly commercial real estate newspaper.